given her virgin flesh to the Lord? Despite Leah and Judith and Rachel and Ruth and Sarah, there were few Mothers of Israel, and none of them, however worthy and beloved of God, had been granted such divine [...] died, and she was wrapped in the burial cloths and spices, and we knelt about her bed, praying, and suddenly there was a great noise, greater than any thunder, for it shook the little house, and there [...] there was a light more vivid than the sun, and we fell on our faces, mute and blind and fallen of senses. And when we lifted ourselves, dazed, the bed was empty and only a glimmer of light lay there, which
by the Holy Spirit, and to the new stories about your parents, their barrenness and decrepitude, their prayers and petitions, and the announcements from God concerning your birth, and by his grace your [...] unexpected and wonderful birth. And may your thoughts not remain on this Jewish people and your father's house. "Forget your own people and your ancestral home" (Ps 44:11) and all that which belongs to [...] to this world, and put on a new thought and a solid hope, and "then the king will fall in love with your beauty" (Ps 45:11), and you will be worthy to be truly called his mother. Moreover, He enriched his
by the Holy Spirit, and to the new stories about your parents, their barrenness and decrepitude, their prayers and petitions, and the announcements from God concerning your birth, and by his grace your [...] unexpected and wonderful birth. And may your thoughts not remain on this Jewish people and your father's house. "Forget your own people and your ancestral home" (Ps 44:11) and all that which belongs to [...] to this world, and put on a new thought and a solid hope, and "then the king will fall in love with your beauty" (Ps 45:11), and you will be worthy to be truly called his mother. Moreover, He enriched his
image and likeness; - the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Immaculate Conception, through her spotless purity and total responsiveness to God's will was and is most capable of all humans of receiving and sharing [...] Blessed Virgin Mary. This consecration, made in love and devotion, rests solidly on the theological truths that: - God has created the world to show forth and share the divine love, goodness and action with [...] divine grace, light, wisdom and power; - God--for the fullest accomplishment of the purpose of Creation in human persons, and in the world--has deigned to fill Mary with grace and to call her, with her assent
smiles and breathes, a God who can be touched and is alive. And it is in those moments that I would paint Mary, if I were a painter, and I would try to render her expression of bold tenderness and the shyness [...] he has my eyes, and the shape of his mouth is the shape of my mouth. He is God and he is like me." And no woman has had her God for her alone. A very small God who can be hugged and kissed, a warm God [...] from his mother because he is God, and this Child is greater in all things than she can even imagine. And it is a hard test for a mother to be ashamed of herself and her human condition in front of her
holy veil is confirmed: "And you virgins who weave byssus and silk, and gold from Ophir, in haste pick it all up and throw it in the fire that it will return it to its Author, and that the flame will take [...] November 23 - Our Lady of the Vault (Italy) Mary in the Temple (III) And Mary was given the task of weaving the purple and scarlet In the Apocalypse of Baruch, the existence of virgins living in the Temple [...] purple'." "And Mary was given the task of weaving the purple and scarlet" echoes the apocryphal book of James's proto-Gospel. The insight of Christian faith can discern in this weaving of purple and scarlet
holy veil is confirmed: "And you virgins who weave byssus and silk, and gold from Ophir, in haste pick it all up and throw it in the fire that it will return it to its Author, and that the flame will take [...] November 23 - Our Lady of the Vault (Italy) Mary in the Temple (III) And Mary was given the task of weaving the purple and scarlet In the Apocalypse of Baruch, the existence of virgins living in the Temple [...] purple'." "And Mary was given the task of weaving the purple and scarlet" echoes the apocryphal book of James's proto-Gospel. The insight of Christian faith can discern in this weaving of purple and scarlet
9:6), and he will be given "dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all the peoples, nations, and languages should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his [...] He is righteous, and having salvation; lowly, and riding on a donkey, even on a colt, the foal of a donkey. I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim and the horse from Jerusalem; and the battle bow will [...] cut off; and he will speak peace to the nations: And his dominion will be from sea to sea and from the river to the ends of the earth" (Zech 9:9-10). God's small stone "became a great mountain, and filled
9:6), and he will be given "dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all the peoples, nations, and languages should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his [...] He is righteous, and having salvation; lowly, and riding on a donkey, even on a colt, the foal of a donkey. I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim and the horse from Jerusalem; and the battle bow will [...] cut off; and he will speak peace to the nations: And his dominion will be from sea to sea and from the river to the ends of the earth" (Zech 9:9-10). God's small stone "became a great mountain, and filled
Israel" (Is 49:6)? "He was despised, and rejected by men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and as one from whom men hide their face he was despised; and we didn't respect him (Is 53:3). "Surely [...] to hack off my hands and my feet. I can count every one of my bones, while they look on and gloat; they divide my garments among them and cast lots for my clothing (Ps 22:16-18). And: "They will look to [...] portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he poured out his soul to death, and was numbered with the transgressors: yet he bore the sin of many, and made intercession for
